| 1803 - 674 páginas
...fabrications," and " paragraphs of a libellous tendency." Sweet are the uses of Adversity, Which, like a Toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head! MISTAKES. " The French have just published " La Chromyut du Mai. or Pa" triotic Observations on the... | |
| Thomas Dutton - 1814 - 140 páginas
...to rule, And BITCHE to JOHNSTON prove a wholesome school ! • " Sweet are the uses of Adversity : Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head." SHAKSPEARE. \ ON THE DEATH OF Joseph Marshall Sf William Cox, TWO BRITISH SEAMEN, INHUMANLY BUTCHERED,... | |
| Sir Thomas Bernard - 1820 - 288 páginas
...enjoy the costly ornament, which our dramatic poet has ascribed to the terrific goddess, Adversity; " Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, " Bears yet a precious jewel in its head." But, that youthful and resistless charms should be incumbered by armour so unnecessary, I cannot agree.... | |
| 1854 - 1112 páginas
...of greater sin in Marius. But this was the darkest hour. The day was breaking. Affliction, " Like a toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head." Sickness touched the youth. A cough which proved extremely obstinate followed him through the winter.... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 páginas
...comfort of their hearts, than those, who sit on velvet cushions. —— Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head. 1 HI. Misfortunes never assume so difficult a character, as in their perspective: anticipation, like... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 páginas
...their hearts, than those, who sit on velvet cushions. — — — Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head.1 I f III. Misfortunes never assume so difficult a character, as in their perspective : anticipation,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 páginas
...mought 1 we, And loathing paddocks lording on the same. iycitser. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its bead. Sltakspeare. In the great plague there were seen, in divers ditches about London, many toads... | |
| Thucydides - 1829 - 588 páginas
...himself for commemorating exploits in which he could have no share. " Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in his head." On his banishment he retired to Scaptesyle, the property of his wife*, and thus dedicated... | |
| Thucydides - 1831 - 414 páginas
...souls are congenial ; their thoughts are always of a similar cast. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in his head. Shakspeare hath thus expressed what Thucydides, as it is highly probable, must hare thought.... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 páginas
...wisdom and justice of the Supreme Disposer of events, and firmly believe that adversity, — " Though like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in his head." — SHAKSPERE. But even while acknowledging this, our thoughts will revert regretfully to... | |
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